First Cut is the Deepest (One Way Dance) · holder

76 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 1:33 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
1:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 197 BPM
FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST (ONE WAY DANCE) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 61.

LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time, 3 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-36.

PART A
PART C
PART D
PART E
PART F
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOFDLK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is First Cut is the Deepest (One Way Dance)?

197 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is First Cut is the Deepest (One Way Dance) hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 1:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in First Cut is the Deepest (One Way Dance)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 61.

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